Andrei Kravchenko

Andrei Grigoryevich Kravchenko (30 November 1899-18 October 1963) was a Colonel-General of the Soviet Red Army who led the 6th Guards Tank Army during World War II.

Biography
Andrei Grigoryevich Kravchenko was born on 30 November 1899 in Sulimivtsy, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) to a family of ethnic Ukrainians. He joined the Red Army in 1918 at the start of the Russian Civil War, and he later attended the Frunze Military Academy and became a tank commander.

In 1939, Kravchenko fought in the Winter War with Finland as chief of staff of the 173rd Motorized Division, and he commanded several tank corps during Operation Barbarossa, fighting against Nazi Germany and its Axis allies during World War II. Kravchenko fought at Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, the Dnieper, the Jassy-Kishinev Offensive, the Vienna Offensive, and the Bratislava-Brno Offensive, leading the 6th Guards Tank Army. After the German surrender on 8 May 1945, he was transferred to the Far East to take part in the invasion of Manchukuo, and he became the commander of the Far Eastern Military District from 1954 until his 1955 retirement. He died in 1963 at the age of 63.